Campaign workers pasting up posters in Saigon for the September 1967 election, four months before the Tet Offensive.
SUCCESS!
United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam’s presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.
Andrew Sullivan writes a post that’s a perfect example of the habitual [...]
I see Glenn “I’m a tax-supported professor with time on my hands” Reynolds — does that guy ever teach any classes? — is sliming Tom Woods’ best-selling book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, without — of course — having actually read it. Now, I haven’t read it yet, either — but based [...]
Good grief! When I read the following blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, I practically fell off my chair:
“THE NYT’S SILENCE: In the blogosphere, we are often called to account for previous statements; or asked to concede that we were wrong about something or other. It happens. We’re all human and our judgment is never going [...]
The official results aren’t in yet, nor are any preliminary returns, but that isn’t stopping the United Iraqi Alliance backed by fundamentalist Shi’ite cleric Ayatollah Sistani from claiming victory — and an overwhelming one at that:
“Officials in the United Iraqi Alliance believe their bloc of mainly Shi’ite parties has won almost half of the 275 [...]
As usual, the drugs-sex-&-rock&roll brigade over at Reason is head-over-heels in love with the latest deformed offspring of American “democracy”-promotion, in this case the Iraqi election, with editor Nick Gillespie fawning — “some came on crutches” — over the fake “72 percent turnout” figure thrown out by Iraqi government officials and later hailing the corrected [...]
Stephen Schwartz, self-described “Trotsky-con,” frenzed defender of Uzbekistan’s brutal dictatorship, and always a barrel of laughs, must be off his medication again, ’cause here he is taking credit for the Iraqi election:
“The group of non-Iraqis in America entitled to exult is tiny: it consists of President Bush himself, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, [...]
There have been a lot of turnout estimates thrown around fast and loose — hopefully we will have a better indication of the truth soon.
But the International Organization for Migration (IOM) seems to have learned some propaganda techniques from the previous Iraqi leader. The IOM was in charge of out-of-country voting by [...]
There is much speculation floating around about the tragic crash of the British C-130 Hercules yesterday which occurred barely twenty miles northwest of Baghdad. While the BBC reports in Ten feared dead in Hercules crash that “…wreckage from the C-130 plane, which is known for its reliability, was spread over a wide area, after [...]
Andrew Gilligan, of the London Evening Standard, reporting from Iraq:
“Groups of men sat outside their shops, showing each other the ink-marked index fingers they got when they voted. It was a Shia area. so no problems about turnout. No doubt about what voters wanted either.
“‘Now we are democratic, the Americans must do what [...]
Getting beyond all the self-congratulatory hype in the American media, the London Independent offers this perspective from Iraq:
“The Americans have repeatedly charged that Iran was interfering in the election and bankrolling Shia Islamist parties such as Dawa and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) – both part of the Sistani list – [...]
My Monday column calls the election “Sistani’s Triumph,” and suggests that the government that comes out of Sunday’s poll will be closer to the Iranian model than the American system. Here’s the conservative columnist Terry Jeffries, in a column published in May of last year that is of interest given the probable outcome of the [...]
I’m live-blogging Pat Buchanan and David Frum squaring off on “Hardball” with Chris Matthew. There’s Commissar Frum looking smarmy and green. Ewww… And there’s Pat, looking his usual great self.
Frum :This is part of a broader struggle. This shows the entire Middle East the way forward — and will show that the battle is [...]
